I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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